On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:24:35AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

Counter Terror Expo: News of a possible viable business model for P2P VoIP network Skype emerged today, at the Counter Terror Expo in London. An industry source disclosed that America's supersecret National Security Agency (NSA) is offering "billions" to any firm which can offer reliable eavesdropping on Skype IM and voice traffic.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_for_skype_pwnage...

Of course, this could just be a smokescreen to try to convince people that they can't already do it. The voice traffic may be hard to break, but the fact that every client can download my entire IM history when logging into a new machine kind of kills the "it's p2p so we can't track it" argument. Those messages are stored somewhere. -- - Adam ** Expert Technical Project and Business Management **** System Performance Analysis and Architecture ****** [ http://www.adamfields.com ] [ http://workstuff.tumblr.com ] ........... Technology Blog [ http://www.aquick.org/blog ] ............ Personal Blog [ http://www.adamfields.com/resume.html ].. Experience [ http://www.flickr.com/photos/fields ] ... Photos [ http://www.twitter.com/fields ].......... Twitter [ http://www.morningside-analytics.com ] .. Latest Venture [ http://www.confabb.com ] ................ Founder --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE